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Deja de quejarte de tu falta de dinero y haz algo para cambiar tu situación.Stop moaning about your lack of money and do something to change your situation.

c. to grumble

Él siempre se está quejando de la mala comida que le dan en la escuela.He is always grumbling about the bad meals they serve at school.

2. (to express pain)

a. to moan

Él tenía dolor de estómago y estuvo quejándose toda la noche.He had a stomach ache and was moaning all night.

b. to groan

Mi perro se comió una barra entera de mantequilla y ahora se está quejando de dolor.My dog ate an entire stick of butter and now he is groaning in pain.

c. to complain

Mi mamá se queja de dolor en la cadera siempre que camina por un rato.My mom complains about hip pain whenever she walks for a while.

quejarse

A pronominal verb always uses a reflexive pronoun. (e.g. Te ves cansado.).

pronominal verb

1. (protestar)

a. to complain

2. (refunfuñar)

a. to moan

siempre está quejándose del frío que hace en este paíshe's always complaining about how cold it is in this country

no sé de qué te quejasI don't know what you're complaining about

3. (colloquial)

This refers to an idiomatic word or phrase for which there is no word-for-word translation.

no direct translation

quejarse de vicioto complain about nothing

4. (expresar dolor, pena)

a. to moan, to groan

últimamente se queja mucho de la espaldarecently she's been complaining a lot that her back hurts

quejarse

pronominal verb

1 (reclamar) (gen) to complain;de about, of; (refunfuñando) to grumble;de about, at; (protestando) to protest;de about, at

quejarse a la dirección to complain to the management; quejarse de que to complain (about the fact) that; se quejó de que nadie lo escuchaba he complained that nobody listened to him; quejarse de vicio to be always complaining

2 (gemir) (gen) to moan; groan; (lloriqueando) to whine

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quejarse de

to complain about, to moan in

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	Present	Preterite	Imperfect	Conditional	Future
yo	me quejo	me quejé	me quejaba	me quejaría	me quejaré
tú	te quejas	te quejaste	te quejabas	te quejarías	te quejarás
él/ella/Ud.	se queja	se quejó	se quejaba	se quejaría	se quejará
nosotros	nos quejamos	nos quejamos	nos quejábamos	nos quejaríamos	nos quejaremos
vosotros	os quejáis	os quejasteis	os quejabais	os quejaríais	os quejaréis
ellos/ellas/Uds.	se quejan	se quejaron	se quejaban	se quejarían	se quejarán